Broadway (1978, closed in Boston) - repro

The legendary and ill-fated 1978 musical revival project 'Broadway' infamously collapsed and closed during its out-of-town pre-Broadway tryout engagement at Boston's Shubert Theatre, never reaching New York. Conceived as a grand, brassy musical adaptation of Philip Dunning and George Abbott’s classic 1926 jazz-age crime melodrama, the plot unfolds inside a smoky, dangerous Manhattan speakeasy, tracking a young tap dancer caught between bootlegging gangsters and showgirls. Directed by Abbott himself in his mature years, this short-lived production remains a top-tier rarity for collectors tracking lost musical books.